Tuesday, March 24, 2009

In brief: it was a good time. Saw some friends that I haven't seen since the last con, and got to talk to some people that I met briefly last year.

One of them was Laura Anne Gilman, who autographed my newly-purchased copy of THE SHADOWS BETWEEN, a Poltergeist: The Legacy novel, written under the name L.A. Liverakos. This was sometime after I mentioned the fact that I was trying to avoid buying more media tie-in novels. Sorry, but most of them are awful. However, I have hope for this one because I made a bit of a fool of myself when I discovered that she had co-written DEEP WATER, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel with Josepha Sherman, a book that I read within the past year. I remembered Sherman's connection to the book, but not Gilman's.

Okay, so I felt like an oxymoron minus the oxy. I was introduced by a mutual friend and stopped by one of her panels. Shame on me for spacing out on her name until this year. In my defense, she was introduced to me only as "Laura Anne" ... No, not much of a defense. Now I have to find my copy of Deep Water and ask them both to sign it next year.

In other news, I re-used my Joker costume from last Halloween. Not the Heath Ledger Joker, but the costume I had in 1989. It still fit 20 years later. (It was a little big on me back then.) One guy asked why I wasn't wearing a fake mustache covered in white face paint. Ah, maybe next year.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

It came to my attention recently that calling a pizza a pie seems to be a regional thing. Friends on the net seemed perplexed when I used the term round pie. At least I didn't use the ultra-Brooklynese term pizza pie.

By the way, when I did this Pi Day comic last year, I hadn't planned on it being an annual thing. But I've been asked by a couple of people what I was cooking up for this year (and why I didn't mention Square Root Day).

So give the people what they want. I can't disappoint my handful of followers.

Sunday, March 01, 2009

The Lego-comic posted lasted under the title, Class Blog, was created partly because of the Irregular Webcomic Remix Competition. (And partly because I wanted to do it once I found out that I had permission to do it in the first place!)

About Me

Mr. Burke is a high school math teacher in New York as well as a part-time writer, and a fan of science-fiction/fantasy books and films.
He started making his own math webcomic totally by accident as a way of amusing his students and trying to make them think just a little bit more.
Unless otherwise stated, all math cartoons and other images on this webpage are the creation and property of Mr. Chris Burke and cannot be reused without permission.
Thank you.